Improved martingale



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PATRICK J. MCGUINESS, 'or NEW YoRK, N. Y.'v

' Leners Patent Nq. 54,643, dated December 1,1868.

IMPROVED MARTINGALE.

To all whom it mag/'camera Be it known that I, PATRICK J. McGUINEss,`of New York, in the county of' New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Standing Martin'gales; and I do hereby declare that the ibllowing' is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, like letters indicating like parts wherever. they occur.

To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

My invention relatesto martingales, and consists in the construction of a novel and highly ornamental .standing martingale,'by'tbe union of a leather loop and fancy metallic chain with a double India-rubber elastic strap, as hereinafter described, as a newarticle of manufacture in the trade.

In the drawings- Figure l is a plan view, and

Figure 2 is an edge or side view. i

I am aware that standing martiugales have been long used, and constructed out of various materials, and with different kinds of ornamentation. They have, however, been generally eonstructed of leather alone, or of leather and some other non-elastic substance.

My object is to produce a highly-ornamental standing martingale of leather, bright metallic fancy chain, and India rubber, for use on high-spirited horses. as a new article in the trade.

My martingale consists of a leather strap, A, formed into a loop, b, at one end, and provided with a buckle, B,'for shortening or lengthening the martingale in the usual way, as shown in gs. 1 and 2, and, at the other. end, connected to a double India-.rubber elastic strap, D, by a rivet, i, which passes through both, and through a short strap,.d, sewed' tov strap A, to make the conv l l lic flat-tube chain, F, by means'of the metal ring E,

and to the chain F, I connect two shorter metallic iiattube chains H, by means of the metal ring C, and attach to their loose ends, by metal rings j, swivelled snap-hooks I.

v The metallic dat-tube chains are formed of short pieces of tube, c, slightly flattened, and connected by wire links ff y This chain may =b` plated with gold or silver, when it presents a rich, bright, massive, and highlyorna mental appearance.

My martingale is used in the ordinary way. The sircingle is passed through the loop b, and the snaphooks I are attached to the'ends ofthe bridle-bit, and the buckle B is adjusted so as to make the martingale of the desired length.

However high-spirited the horse may be, the elastic rubber loop D gives, or allows him to move his head, and thus keep the chain in constant mdtion, which, from the peculiar manner of its construction, will, when gilded, present a bright, glittering, and very ornamental appearance.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim, is-

As 'a new article of manufacture, an ornamental elastic' standing martingale, consisting of the leather.

loop A, rubber elastic strap I), metallic flat-tube chains H,a11d swivlled snap-hooks I, all constructed and -arranged as herein described.

v PATRICK J. MCGUINESS. l

Witnesses :A

J. DEN VON REYMERT, I. S. TALLMADGE. 

